KDE Telepathy as part of KDE Applications

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dimecres, 2 d’agost de 2017, a les 18:44:17 CEST, Christoph Feck va 
escriure:
> On 02.08.2017 17:52, Martin Klapetek wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> > 
> > I was long thinking about writing this email but kept putting it off,
> > but I think it's only fair towards everyone, especially our users so
> > here it goes finally.
> > 
> > The KDE Telepathy project is as of now unmaintained for over
> > a year. That means there is no active development nor bugfixes
> > except a few occasional patches from an uncooperative guy.
> > Nobody is handling the incoming bugs. The protocol support is
> > outdated, the KAccounts project is unmaintained (including the
> > upstream), I'm not sure about the upstream Telepathy project
> > but my guess is that it's also not in active development anymore
> > either.
> > 
> > As the last maintainer of KDE Telepathy and KAccounts, I feel like
> > we're doing our users a disservice by shipping such outdated and
> > unmaintained software. Therefore I'd like to recommend to stop
> > shipping KDE Telepathy (all the ktp-* packages) as part of KDE
> > Applications, if just to not give the impression that this is still being
> > developed.
> > 
> > But I'd like to leave it at that - a recommendation from the previous
> > maintainer. If you guys still think it's worth being shipped, it's ok if
> > you continue so. I just wanted you to be aware of the state of the
> > project that we ship as our main IM solution.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > --
> > Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
> 
> Looking at the bug tracker, we receive some bugs for KAccounts, but
> virtually none for other KTP components. Either nobody uses those (in
> this case I have no objections for your proposal), or they work fine,
> which means I see no reason to stop shipping them.
> 
> Note that we have literally hundreds of "unmaintained" modules,
> including many games and edu apps in KDE Applications. Our general
> policy is to move them out only when they are no longer buildable or
> usable, and nobody steps up to fix that.

Agreed, it doesn't seem to be "horribly broken", so shipping it for those that 
still use it makes sense imho.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Christoph